Thought I would post this he "In a very surprising move, Microsoft has announced today that Windows Live OneCare customers will be getting the shaft next year. The software giant has decided to replace OneCare with a free security solution (codenamed "Morro") to be released in the second half of next year. The yet-to-be-announced product will be a realtime anti-malware protection...

I need to purchase the SP1 installation CD/DVD. I have used Search and roamed about Microsoft's Web site to no avail. Could some please give me a link the correct page?

How can I get the windows file open dialog to default to details view every time?

Hi, I installed Vista and created admin user and some normal users. It worked perfectly (UAC showed immidiatelly). I installed some more programs: Aladdin eToken (USB secure card) and VMWare server. Now UAC takes 10 seconds to show. What is UAC looking for? How can I check what is going on?

I hv an ext. HDD formatted by vista into NTFS... i used the disk manager in vista....vista found the drive...i make it active and then format it with NTFS... but when i plug it into my macbook running OSX, the OSX says the drive is write protect... but i am pretty sure i can write things in when i plug it into my vista notebook.... is Mac OSX not capable to write NTFS or is i set anything...

I just bought a HP laptop DV6700. It came with Windows Vista Home Premium 64 bit. The first thing I do when i get a retail PC is reformat so I don't have to deal with all the HP junk they put on it from the factory. So I went to Microsoft's site to order a $12.99 DVD with just plain ol Vista on it. I entered my Key and it tells me "no offer found." The first time I typed the key incorrectly...

We are slowly introducing Vista Business into our environment. I have set up a test computer to work through issues that arise. Yesterday, I created my profile on the Vista computer and mapped a drive to my personal data folder on our fileserver. This morning, the folder name for my personal folder changed to another user's name, but the share name remained unchanged. Also, the security...

We are slowly introducing Vista Business into our environment. I have set up a test computer to work through issues that arise. Yesterday, I created my profile on the Vista computer and mapped a drive to my personal data folder on our fileserver (which is running Windows Server 2003). This morning, the folder name for my personal folder changed to another user's name, but the share name...

I am having trouble using Remote Assistance. It wants to default to Outlook for the invitation, which I don't use. Is there any way to bypass this and use my att.net webmail? I have a RA appointment in two hours. Thanks for any help. -- cattywampus

Hey guys, i'm not very computer savvy and am having a problem with my HP laptop (running Vista), right now i'm in safe mode (+ networking) mode because my computer froze last night, so I had to hold the power button and turn it off. Well when I turned it back on, it loaded all my desktop etc everything looked fine, I could move my mouse cursor and all but I couldn't click anything, nothing...

Hi there, Created a batch file to list the file names in a specific folder, here it is : @echo off dir .gif "C:\users\Billy\Desktop\list" C:\users\Billy\Desktop\list\list_of_program_files.txt but the list comes out like this :

Hi! I have a new computer with Windows Vista. I wanted to install Emacs from http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/windows/emacs-22.3-bin-i386.zip and was surprised to find that trying to extract the files of this (rather large) zip file reliably crashes Windows Explorer. I tried to report the bug to Microsoft Support but unfortunately they won't

Hello Why does the mouse pointer disappear in Vista / Ultimate / RTM / Windows Media Center?

Running Vista Home Premium (clean install) 64 bit, how can I change the shut down screen from Sleep to shut down? I would rather have the default as "shut down."

Could anyone advise where to find this util? Have been told it can be found on build server, but where?

How can i use navigation in europe while i am living in usa? -- tomgreag Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com

Somehow whenever I press the left shift key, it opens calculator everytime. If I press the right shift key, then the windows search app opens. Any idea how I got into this situation? Rebooting doesn't help. I have a labtec wireless keyboard and mouse if that matters. The keyboard does have buttons on it to also open calculator and search. -- Phil Tomaskovic Please remove NOSPAM from...

Vista Home Premium Can't find the answer through Google. Have a wireless keyboard. In the last few days my keyboard seems to 'freeze.' That is, when I type, nothing happens. I have to hit a key for a couple of seconds before the character appears on the screen. And sometimes, hitting a key results in double characters on the screen. Almost like something is tying up the PC. How do I...

How do I stop the computer from attempting to boot with the hibernate file? The computer is not starting after it went to coma state. J

Hello I am new to Vista and find myself frustrated with the whole thing! All I want to know is HOW DO YOU SPELL CHECK IN THE E-MAIL area? It should be so simple but it tells me this no longer spell checks in the lanugage ........ Is the ispell something I must download in order to get spell check? :sick: Thank you for your time